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also, yeah, i was the last generation that was taught old school trivium "first principles" science. that's why i (along with my high intelligence) have the capacity to understand this stuff. i don't have much practical experience though, but i know pretty much the basics of how to produce all kinds of thermo/explosive basics, it's not really the most interesting part of the subject for me though. when i was in highschool, i was fascinated by organic chemistry, specifically polymers. as i've got older, i'm much more interested in things like soap and cleaning agents, fuel production, distillation, simple organic synthesis, and inorganic chemistry (of which largely the things that go bang or get very hot are about).

i'm most focused though, on understanding, now, what the essentials are for agriculture and hunting, and processing the production into food, and how to store it. but weapons are also very important, basic for hunting, but i want to have the lowest level fallback i can get. how to make a basic longbow, for a start, and then, how to craft a recurve bow. crossbows are only a small extra element of trigger mechanism and string puller, but can be made much larger for much longer range. and how to make various types of tips, what you can make the stick thing out of (i know there is a proper name) and in general the whole thing of fletching, putting the flights on the end, the proper ways to put the notch, and then, of course, how to use it effectively. it's something i plan to do in the near future. including the basic precursor, which is a knife. you need a knife to make a bow. knives are primary tools.

Comte de Sats Germain 1mo ago

Bolts - the stick thingy, in crossbows and arbalests. For knives, the simplest and most effective route is flint knapping. Skipping the whole metallurgy chain let's you get to skinning and carving faster, and flint knives are sharper than metal knives anyways.

Intelligence wise, for me it's a curse. I'm not claiming to be a great wizard or anything, but I've got enough to know when I'm being excluded out of envy, and have to tactically pretend to be dumb so that people don't ostracize me right away. This "lived experience," to borrow a commie term ironically, is how I know that humanity is getting dumber over time - civilization commits a slow genocide against intelligence by ostracizing intelligent people and thus denying them the opportunities that would allow them to reproduce.

Social-natural selection selects for workers that don't think. Its shockingly evident in the chikdren of immigrants that come up from the south here - after generations in this environment, their modern descendants are, at best, programmed into belligerent social justice warriors, making all conversations with them a dangerous waste of time. And what story does their ancestry tell? Subjugation only, first as unquestioning catholics, and then as the survivors of encomienda. Compare with the population of North America - we mixed with natives, learned from them, and did not enslave them and exterminate them, which was the 500 years process in the Latin countries. The European settlers were largely from nobility - second sons with no inheritance other than their wits, which were substantial, and that's why they were nobility, mixed with undomesticated native Americans, and notably excluded catholics, who were and are so domesticated that they fail to question the obviously lying and corrupt clergy. The result was a warrior poet north vs a subservient horde of unthinking workers in the south. I doubt a sharper divide can be found anywhere on earth.

Anyways. None of this is intended to say that any human beings are less valuable than others. A being is a being, regardless of details.

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